vibrant - Story 163153 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the email arrived, a jolt shot through Amelia. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She was practically buzzing. She needed to let off steam. She went outside and walked along the beach, kicking at the sand.

She couldn’t believe this was happening. She took a deep breath of sea air, filling her lungs with the crisp scent of brine. She saw Liam, also walking along the beach, phone in hand. Amelia had the job interview at the same time and place.

She felt like she could leap over the waves. The future felt wide open, full of possibilities. If only she could bottle this feeling.

Emotion: vibrant

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 2.83 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.36

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vibrant. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 vibrant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vibrant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vibrant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.518
`!`	0.459
`!".`	0.436
`de`	0.434
`!).`	0.409

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.890
`L`	-0.478
`P`	-0.407
`H`	-0.365
`😞`	-0.306